10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201356
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2001-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/03249/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201356
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 10 AND 12, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05014 16354
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW MARKET PLACE 770-1/6/106 (West side) 24/02/50 Nos.10 AND 12 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (West side) Nos.10 & 12 King's Head (12))
GV II*
House, now 2 shops and flats. Early C18, with C17 rear building and c1900 shop front. Painted incised stucco and ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof Welsh slate with stone gable coping. 3 storeys; 3+2-window range. Shop front at left has central door, 3 top lights to each window with good quality stained glass, glazed tile stall-risers, jewelled mullions, fascia on long brackets on end pilasters; low 6-panel yard-passage door to right in tooled stone surround. Shop at right has restored C18-style house windows, with painted stone surrounds and sashes with glazing bars. Upper floors have plain sashes in architraves, those on second floor slightly smaller and abutting modillioned eaves cornice with acanthus decoration. Alternately projecting quoins. Steeply pitched roof has gable copings resting on moulded kneelers, and end chimneys. Rear wing, disused and derelict, has transverse rear block which shows some blocked C17/early C18 stone mullioned windows; INTERIOR: front range has rear arched beam, possibly for fireplace, but relationship to structure obscured. Rear wing has C18 stone kitchen fireplace, partly blocked, with raised and fielded panels to side cupboards; window seat to adjacent blocked C18 window. Roof has collared trusses rising from wall, with 2 levels of purlins. No.10 listed 29.09.54.
Listing NGR: NZ0501416354
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388735
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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